The projects in our lab aim to better understand how natural selection has contributed to the evolution of our species and to which extent past selection events impact present-day susceptibility to disease. Our group studies the genetic basis of differences in immune response among different individuals and human populations as well as the phenotypic evolution of immune responses in primates. Most projects in the lab are multidisciplinary and combine the use of cutting edge genomic techniques (e.g., RNA-seq) with immunological and evolutionary genetic tools.

News

July 1st 2018
The Barreiro lab officially moved to the University of Chicago

Dec 1st 2017
In June 2018 our lab will be moving to the University of Chicago! We have several postdoc and PhD positions available!

Sep 18 2017
Hey all! It’s been a while since the last post! Here’s some news since the last time!
A whole new review done in collaboration with Jenny Tung has just been published in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development.The contribution of admixture to primate evolution